Yeah, sorry, my tone was too harsh there, it’s definitely relevant context

If you’re considering how good software is, how it was made is irrelevant, the only thing to measure is how well it works. A criticism of Linux from a user perspective is still valid regardless of who is or isn’t to blame.

I almost never use my phone, mostly just when I need it for authentication stuff. Computer only for everything else. Hoping to be able to get rid of the phone at some point.

I have and I think it makes a lot of sense that psychedelics could potentially help with OP’s specific problem

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann

The main rule I try to adhere to:

If I think someone who responded to my comment did not read the whole thing, I should not reply.

Well one reason is probably that signing your article content to help it be verified when it is repackaged elsewhere is kind of the opposite of what news sources are trying to do with their paywalls.

imo it conflicts too much with freedom of information. In general, if I know something then I shouldn’t be barred from continuing to know it and expressing it, even if that knowledge involves someone who would rather I couldn’t. There can be exceptions in extreme situations, but things like a “right to be forgotten” and “copyright” very broadly violate freedom of information.

I’m skeptical the market is ever going to have principles, for every person that has gotten burned and become personally aware of shady practices, there are many more that aren’t aware and don’t have the incentive or ability to do research to find out. Seems like the sort of thing where the system is rigged in favor of scammers if consumer choice is the only regulation.

I think people don’t even realize the scale of the removals, because when it isn’t banning you the platform goes out of its way to hide it from you when your comments are removed, it looks like it is still there while you are logged in but no one else can see it, I only even find out by using the reveddit extension, and I’ve been banned from subreddits just for mentioning that there’s a way to do this. It’s usually a totally innocuous comment that gets removed, assuming they just have a keyword that triggered a bot or a mod just didn’t like what I said and clicked delete. What they’re doing can hardly be termed ‘moderation’ anymore.

(if your id is stolen and you arduously go about getting a new one)

I thought I had lost mine once and got a new SSN card, they don’t give you a new number, it’s the same number

Explicit types are just laziness, you should be catching exceptions anyways.